To my Boschong Subscribers, I want to wish each one of you a very Happy Thanksgiving with much good food and many Blessings. A very wise woman named Lucille Crumley wrote the following back in the 1971 Thanksgiving issue of IDEALS about Thanksgiving and I believe it is well worth sharing. She starts her article with the words of the Mayflower Compact which was really the beginning of our government structure and certainly shoots down any arguments that this nation was not founded under God. "In the name of God, Amen! We do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." She goes on to explain the Pilgrims and that first Thanksgiving and ends it with the following: "Our American holiday of Thanksgiving is traced to this Plymouth colony, but the idea is much older. The origin of the custom of setting aside a time of thanksgiving to God is lost in the mists of time. There are repeated references to expressions of thanksgiving in the Old Testament. Noah, delivered from the flood, erected an altar to the Lord in thanksgiving. One can uncover in history many a poignant tableau of thanksgiving. In Revelation we can journey to the island of Patmos and join a prisoner, named John, to behold a future thanksgiving scene that spans the dimensions of time and space, to generate hope and new life in the weariest of human breasts. We find in Revelation 7: 11-12, "And all the angels stood round about the throne...and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen." Only the blessed of God know what Thanksgiving Day is really all about. Only the country that was founded, under God, is the greatest blest in 1971. We, the people of today, must preserve this heritage for our children and our children's children, the in the name of God. Amen! ------------------- I will be spending Thanksgiving with my daughter Jill and the entire family. There will be 13 of us around the table this year. The family will gather at my house for Christmas. If you are flying this Thanksgiving, keep a sense of humor. Just remember everyone else is in the same boat and this is still the greatest nation on earth! Don't let others bring you down. Gloria Bushong now on Facebook